Comments on: The Seven Deadly Sins of Using Templates http://www.graphicmania.net/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-using-templates/ GraphicMania.net provides graphic design resources, tutorials, web design and design reviews. Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rafiq Elmansy (admin) http://www.graphicmania.net/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-using-templates/#comment-112291 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:09:36 +0000 http://www.graphicmania.net/?p=8073#comment-112291 In reply to Glenn.

Thank you for your thoughts, I agree with you that the situation is when to “template” or not to use “template”.I believe this is the thin line between using templates in right or wrong way.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.graphicmania.net/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-using-templates/#comment-112252 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:35:47 +0000 http://www.graphicmania.net/?p=8073#comment-112252 This question (to “template” or not to “template”) constantly plagues me. To date, I have never used a template but I know I lost at least one job in the qualifying stage when the customer asked be “do you use templates ?” and I said no. (Altho I did get the SEO work.)

As a developer you can create many tools to help automate your work but design is inevitably slow and tedious. Perhaps the trick is to determine for what categories of work I may be willing to use a template.

The tough thing is that I think Branding matters. For every customer. And unique branding is where templates fall short.

Nice thoughtful post Rafiq.

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